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More Tropes Unspoken Plan Guarantee Scary Black Man Easily Forgiven Police Brutality Kick the Dog BFG Reality Is Unrealistic Wham Line Vitriolic Best Buds The '60s Greater-Scope Villain Action Genre Disproportionate Retribution Air-Vent Passageway Sadistic Choice Bring My Brown Pants Shoot the Shaggy Dog Fish out of Water Not Using the "Z" Word Only Known by Their Nickname Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Black Dude Dies First Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Composite Character Villain Ball Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Epic Movie Berserk Button Vacation Films Historical Hero Upgrade Bloody Hilarious Eldritch Abomination Adorkable Obviously Evil Only One Name Manly Tears Villain Opening Scene Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Spiteful Spit Knife Nut Antagonist Title Mystery and Detective Films Drives Like Crazy Our Zombies Are Different Hypocritical Humor Biopic Spell My Name with an "S" Beard of Evil Ass Shove Psychopathic Manchild Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Have a Gay Old Time Red Right Hand Badass in a Nice Suit Not What It Looks Like Morality Pet Kill It with Fire Didn't Think This Through Contrived Coincidence Never Trust a Trailer Race Against the Clock Translation Convention Pyrrhic Victory Author Avatar Actor Allusion Idiot Ball Running Gag Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Final Girl Man on Fire Black Comedy Rape Leaning on the Fourth Wall My Beloved Smother Knight Templar Action Survivor Awesome, but Impractical Big Bad Kids Are Cruel Corpsing Leitmotif Love Triangle Establishing Character Moment Improvised Weapon Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Failed a Spot Check Double Entendre Genre Throwback Nice Hat Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Blood Knight Camera Abuse Black and Gray Morality Parental Incest The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Ominous Latin Chanting Disguised in Drag Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Bolivian Army Ending Parental Neglect Even Evil Has Loved Ones Those Two Guys Straight Gay Drugs Are Bad Whole Plot Reference Abusive Parents Only in It for the Money Does This Remind You of Anything? Adaptation Name Change Punny Name Children Are Innocent Twist Ending Cassandra Truth Those Two Bad Guys Rule of Symbolism Earn Your Happy Ending Rule of Cool Anti-Villain The Lost Lenore Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Calling the Old Man Out Mugging the Monster Taking the Bullet Auto Erotica Combat Pragmatist Canon Foreigner A Date with Rosie Palms Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Mood Whiplash She's Got Legs Bare Your Midriff Exact Words Men Are the Expendable Gender Shown Their Work Jerk with a Heart of Gold Meaningful Background Event Cool Old Guy Sinister Minister Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Neck Snap Setting Update Gender Flip Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Black Best Friend Brutal Honesty Instant Death Bullet Artistic License – Geography Closed Circle Karma Houdini Driven to Suicide Improbable Weapon User Neck Lift Face Death with Dignity Black Comedy Hair-Trigger Temper Throwing Your Sword Always Works Amoral Attorney Brick Joke Horror Films Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Parental Abandonment No Ending "The Reason You Suck" Speech Death Glare Show Within a Show Loads and Loads of Characters Our Vampires Are Different Reckless Gun Usage Cruel and Unusual Death Fatal Flaw Broken Aesop Australian Movies Dramedy '80s Hair Really Gets Around Unreliable Narrator Historical-Domain Character No OSHA Compliance Real Life Writes the Plot I Just Shot Marvin in the Face The '70s 20 Minutes into the Future The Dragon Madness Mantra The Musical Deliberately Monochrome Russian Films Dirty Old Man Science Fiction Films Visual Pun Jerk Jock Cat Fight Hero Antagonist Pet the Dog The End... Or Is It? Big Eater Soundtrack Dissonance Batman Gambit Adaptational Badass Male Gaze Stealth Hi/Bye Let's Get Dangerous! Armor-Piercing Question Spanner in the Works Superhero Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Blatant Lies The Chick Riddle for the Ages Dark Reprise In Medias Res Time Skip Serious Business The '90s Dogged Nice Guy Oh, Crap! Did Not Get the Girl Heroes Want Redheads Catapult Nightmare Meet Cute Pay Evil unto Evil The Reveal Jitter Cam Only Sane Man Continuity Nod Names to Run Away from Really Fast Cool Car All Men Are Perverts Dirty Cop Scenery Porn Curse Cut Short Animated Credits Opening Recycled IN SPACE! Back from the Dead Woman in White The Place In the Back From Nobody to Nightmare Death Seeker Big "NO!" More Dakka Make It Look Like an Accident Even Evil Has Standards Ungrateful Bastard Important Haircut Rule of Three Laser-Guided Karma What You Are in the Dark Cat Scare Almost Kiss Credits Gag Beware the Nice Ones Green-Eyed Monster Music Stories Flashback Bait-and-Switch Big Applesauce Face–Heel Turn Training Montage Apocalypse How Annoying Younger Sibling He Who Fights Monsters Film Noir Index Badass Grandpa Hate Sink Made of Explodium Hypocrite Big Brother Instinct Red Herring Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Papa Wolf "Shaggy Dog" Story Butt-Monkey Creepy Child Not So Above It All Unusual Euphemism Anyone Can Die Older Than They Look Bowdlerise Hong Kong Films The Load Gainax Ending Only a Flesh Wound Brother–Sister Incest Betty and Veronica Mind Screw Advertised Extra Romantic Comedy Military and Warfare Films Missing Mom Self-Deprecation Your Head A-Splode Author Appeal Evil Laugh Foregone Conclusion Despair Event Horizon Dramatic Irony All Just a Dream Stuff Blowing Up Suddenly SHOUTING! Fatal Family Photo Crazy-Prepared Manipulative Bastard Cold-Blooded Torture The Quiet One Crucified Hero Shot Evil Plan Corrupt Corporate Executive Downer Ending As the Good Book Says... Sci-Fi Horror Historical Villain Upgrade Sacrificial Lion Intrepid Reporter Alas, Poor Villain Meaningful Name Interrupted Suicide Curb-Stomp Battle Villain with Good Publicity Fingore Ascended Extra World of Ham Aluminum Christmas Trees Book-Ends Bittersweet Ending Outrun the Fireball Damsel in Distress Plucky Comic Relief Attempted Rape Faux Affably Evil Death by Sex Fourth Date Marriage Empathic Environment Gone Horribly Right Catch-Phrase Redemption Equals Death Pragmatic Adaptation Thriller Jerkass Has a Point Groin Attack Ghost Fiction Narrator The Atoner Ripped from the Headlines Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience folderlabel Cool Guns Gilligan Cut Anti-Hero Sports Stories Light Is Not Good Crazy Jealous Guy War Is Hell Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality The Alleged Car Drill Sergeant Nasty Freudian Excuse Sanity Slippage Age Lift Action Girl Nice Guy Race Lift Hollywood Darkness Costume Porn No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Stealth Pun Evil Brit Badass Boast Undying Loyalty Lock and Load Montage It Will Never Catch On Mundane Made Awesome Creative Closing Credits Hoist by His Own Petard Anachronism Stew Break the Cutie Chewing the Scenery Heel Realization Woman Scorned Famous Last Words Pragmatic Villainy Every Car Is a Pinto Affectionate Parody The '50s Film Noir And the Adventure Continues Asshole Victim Aside Glance Dark Action Girl Psycho for Hire Overly Long Gag Daylight Horror Small Name, Big Ego Parental Substitute Killed Mid-Sentence Screw the Money, I Have Rules! All There in the Manual Drowning My Sorrows Dressing as the Enemy Alliterative Name Mercy Kill La Résistance French Films Boom, Headshot! Deus ex Machina Wounded Gazelle Gambit Slashed Throat Very Loosely Based on a True Story Red Eyes, Take Warning Henpecked Husband The '80s Deal with the Devil Line-of-Sight Name Crapsack World Good Is Not Nice Foreshadowing Pimped-Out Dress Call-Back Badass Normal Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Sequel Hook Comically Missing the Point Grievous Bottley Harm Peek-a-Boo Corpse Funny Foreigner Needs Wiki Magic Love Fantastic Racism The Hero Spiritual Successor Dying Moment of Awesome It's Personal Obfuscating Stupidity Does Not Like Shoes As Himself Based on a True Story Dark Is Not Evil Award-Bait Song Fan Disservice Sealed Evil in a Can Once More, with Clarity! Destination Defenestration Lampshade Hanging Offscreen Moment of Awesome This Is Gonna Suck Took a Level in Jerkass Artistic License – Law Put on a Bus Belligerent Sexual Tension Grey and Gray Morality Eyepatch of Power N-Word Privileges Better to Die than Be Killed Early Installment Weirdness Dissonant Serenity Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Implacable Man Mad Scientist Major Injury Underreaction Ms. Fanservice Vomit Indiscretion Shot Playing Gertrude Frame-Up As Long as It Sounds Foreign I'm a Humanitarian Zombie Stories Enemy Mine Lighter and Softer Big-Bad Ensemble I Need a Freaking Drink The Smart Guy Captain Ersatz The Chessmaster No Celebrities Were Harmed The Brute Spared by the Adaptation Leave the Camera Running Bottomless Magazines Screw the Rules, I Have Money! "Awesome McCool" Name Babies Ever After Say My Name Shower Scene Manic Pixie Dream Girl Bad "Bad Acting" Character Development Expository Hairstyle Change Kick the Son of a Bitch Fiery Redhead In Name Only Moment Killer Taking You with Me Defrosting Ice Queen Suspiciously Specific Denial The Faceless Rich Bitch Shout-Out For the Evulz The Cameo Informed Ability Actually Pretty Funny Anachronic Order An Aesop Evil vs. Evil Determinator Adaptation Expansion The Stoner Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Rule of Funny Tagline Canadian Movies Romantic False Lead Bloodier and Gorier The Sociopath Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Arranged Marriage The Stinger Would Hurt a Child Extremely Short Timespan Fanservice Roaring Rampage of Revenge Non-Indicative Name Evil Is Hammy Alpha Bitch Card-Carrying Villain Bond One-Liner Reality Has No Subtitles Decoy Protagonist Off with His Head! Heroic Sacrifice Blackmail Villainous Breakdown Adapted Out Take That! No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Adult Fear No Name Given Paper-Thin Disguise Cool Shades Retired Badass Not Quite Dead The Vamp Film Series The Ace Dwindling Party Insult Backfire "Well Done, Son!" Guy Scenery Gorn The Oner The Cavalry Unwitting Instigator of Doom Love at First Sight Death by Adaptation Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Femme Fatale Eye Scream Body Horror Not Even Bothering with the Accent Bloodless Carnage Scare Chord Dies Wide Open Double-Meaning Title Slasher Movie All for Nothing Vampire Fiction Suspiciously Similar Substitute Big Bad Duumvirate Call-Forward Guns Akimbo Hidden Depths Together in Death Cain and Abel Works Set in World War II Faking the Dead Developing Doomed Characters Happily Married Expy The Bully Danny Peary Cult Movies List Arc Words Fire-Forged Friends I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Bar Brawl Eiffel Tower Effect Police are Useless Naked People Are Funny Victoria's Secret Compartment The Lancer Darker and Edgier Token Minority Obstructive Bureaucrat The Remake Kubrick Stare Friend to All Children Beauty Is Never Tarnished Red Shirt Sir Swears-a-Lot Guile Hero Dropped a Bridge on Him A Father to His Men Laughing Mad NO INDOOR VOICE Stepford Smiler Death by Irony Authority Equals Asskicking The X of Y Gorn Large Ham You Have Failed Me Fate Worse than Death Cool Old Lady Hooker with a Heart of Gold Mexican Standoff Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Pretty Little Headshots Too Dumb to Live Exactly What It Says on the Tin Bland-Name Product The Smurfette Principle Take a Third Option Beta Couple Blood from the Mouth Off-into-the-Distance Ending Maybe Ever After The Starscream Ambiguous Ending Video Credits You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! An Arm and a Leg Toplessness from the Back Malevolent Masked Men Big Fancy House One-Man Army Artistic License – Biology British Films Abhorrent Admirer Brainless Beauty Mr. Exposition Protagonist Title Precision F-Strike No Antagonist Villain Song Totally Radical All There in the Script Covers Always Lie Serial Killer Department of Redundancy Department Random Events Plot Intergenerational Friendship Depraved Bisexual Determinator aka: The Determinator Product Placement Extreme Doormat Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Animal Motifs The Mole Disappeared Dad Animal Title Index B-Movie Posthumous Character Italian Films Mr. Fanservice One Steve Limit Facial Horror Well-Intentioned Extremist Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Historical In-Joke Rape as Drama Fanservice Extra Slap-Slap-Kiss The Hero Dies How We Got Here Hollywood Law Agony of the Feet Artistic License – History Accidental Misnaming Yandere Ambiguously Gay I Have Your Wife Cowboy Cop Bavarian Fire Drill He Knows Too Much Action Prologue Last-Name Basis Genre Shift Politically Incorrect Villain The Alcoholic German Films Chekhov's Gunman Monumental Damage Chekhov's Skill Cluster F-Bomb Vomit Discretion Shot Affably Evil Tempting Fate The Film of the Book Public Domain Feature Films I Did What I Had to Do Framing Device Flipping the Bird Be Careful What You Wish For The Power of Love Shut Up, Hannibal! Pretty in Mink Here We Go Again! It Can Think The Dreaded Fake Shemp Getting Crap Past the Radar Room Full of Crazy Unusually Uninteresting Sight Re-Cut Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Those Wacky Nazis Four-Temperament Ensemble Country Matters Title Drop After the End Early-Bird Cameo Hope Spot Redshirt Army Disney Villain Death Gory Discretion Shot Smoking Is Cool Shell-Shocked Veteran Deconstruction The Ditz Market-Based Title Evil Sounds Deep Homage Stylistic Suck Up to Eleven Super Strength Cloudcuckoolander Your Cheating Heart Naïve Newcomer The Casanova Car Fu Bad Boss Adaptation Distillation Rasputinian Death Television Movie Index Adaptational Attractiveness Mythology Gag Irony Fun with Acronyms Adults Are Useless Adaptation Dye-Job Conspicuous CG Shirtless Scene Skewed Priorities Artistic License – Gun Safety Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Revenge For Want of a Nail She Cleans Up Nicely Creator Cameo Central Theme Dual Wielding Unresolved Sexual Tension Adaptational Heroism Broken Bird Distracted by the Sexy Horror Comedy Evil-Detecting Dog Star-Crossed Lovers The Mafia Made of Iron Storming the Castle Logo Joke You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Foil Fantasy Films Five-Man Band Domestic Abuse Improbable Aiming Skills Get Out! Eureka Moment Diabolus ex Machina Hell Is That Noise One-Word Title Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Hero of Another Story Arch-Enemy Wicked Cultured Mistaken for Gay Stock Footage Epic Fail Not So Different Noodle Incident Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Deliberate Values Dissonance Badass Bookworm Fat Bastard Casting Gag Worthy Opponent My Greatest Failure A Minor Kidroduction Novelization Wretched Hive Reasonable Authority Figure What Happened to the Mouse? Celebrity Paradox Red Oni, Blue Oni May–December Romance Wrong Genre Savvy Pre-Mortem One-Liner Mama Bear Shipper on Deck Ambiguous Disorder Due to the Dead Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer The Voiceless Camp Gay Never My Fault Rousing Speech No-Sell Took a Level in Badass And Starring Retirony Insane Troll Logic Trailers Always Spoil timeperiod Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Meaningful Echo MacGuffin Bound and Gagged And I Must Scream The Big Guy Wham Shot Evil Is Petty Gold Digger Dumb Blonde Ship Tease It's All About Me Heroic BSoD Reality Ensues Dull Surprise Gratuitous English Big Damn Heroes Humiliation Conga O.O.C. Is Serious Business Nothing Is Scarier Bury Your Gays Adaptational Villainy Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Demoted to Extra Stalker with a Crush Japanese Films Disney Death Humans Are Bastards Freeze-Frame Bonus The Great Depression Villain Protagonist Everyone Has Standards Chekhov's Gun Amusing Injuries Psychological Thriller Offscreen Teleportation Becoming the Mask Documentary Manchild The Stoic Bi the Way Break the Haughty Funny Background Event Would Hit a Girl Mighty Whitey Jerkass Real Life Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Silent Movie Smug Snake "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Sassy Black Woman Defiant to the End Male Frontal Nudity Christmas Movies Index Loophole Abuse Overprotective Dad Dutch Angle Word of God Tap on the Head Imagine Spot Properly Paranoid As You Know Insistent Terminology Ironic Echo Index of Film Westerns True Companions Sequel Escalation Karmic Death Genre Savvy Poor Communication Kills Badass Longcoat Mooks Dramatic Gun Cock Immune to Bullets Ax-Crazy Bullying a Dragon Married to the Job Impaled with Extreme Prejudice All Girls Want Bad Boys Fainting Honor Before Reason Chiaroscuro Soft Glass Match Cut Daddy's Girl An Axe to Grind Bald of Evil What the Hell, Hero? Bilingual Bonus Darkest Hour Half the Man He Used to Be Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Silence Is Golden Punch-Clock Villain Broken Pedestal Bunny-Ears Lawyer Sexy Discretion Shot Rated M for Manly Sole Survivor Death of a Child The Ghost Heterosexual Life-Partners Rewatch Bonus Bond Villain Stupidity Kill 'em All Tranquil Fury Not So Stoic A God Am I Slasher Smile Heel–Face Turn From Bad to Worse Artistic License – Physics Accidental Murder Evil Counterpart The Bad Guy Wins Same Language Dub Jump Scare There Is No Kill Like Overkill Captain Obvious Left the Background Music On Refuge in Audacity The Un-Reveal Retcon Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Truth in Television Dirty Coward Chase Scene Deadpan Snarker Motor Mouth Dark and Troubled Past The Dog Bites Back You Killed My Father My God, What Have I Done? Demonic Possession Coming-of-Age Story Martial Arts Movie Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Plot Hole Anguished Declaration of Love Never Found the Body Breaking the Fourth Wall Artistic License – Military Eagleland Handicapped Badass A.I. Is a Crapshoot